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That would make Windows 9 so much money. Having to shell out a huge amount of money for upgrading is keeping our customer base (school districts) from making the leap before the last possible moment.

With the advent of thin clients and visualization, having a low-powered machine with a low-overhead operating system is looking more and more normal.

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Well one could argue that folks already paid it forward. One could decide to take a couple of billion out of the cash on hand pile and invest it in reinforcing the OS footprint. I think ultimately that is what Apple is trying to prevent with their low cost OS upgrades.

But as a strategic move it would fix a number of weaknesses in Microsoft's current situation.

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